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All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
- Nunn, Gregory
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

2.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

3.
You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Holtz, Lou

4.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Sterne, Laurence

5.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

6.
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.
Symons, Arthur

7.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton

8.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

9.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

10.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

11.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

12.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Woolf, Virginia

13.
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Lowell, James Russell

14.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord

15.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

16.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

17.
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
Ironside, H. A.

18.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Benjamin, Walter

19.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.
Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize.

21.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

22.
I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.
Cartwright, Bill

23.
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Tynan, Kenneth

24.
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
Berger, John

25.
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
Chandler, Raymond

26.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

27.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

28.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

29.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

31.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

32.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

33.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

34.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

35.
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
Barkley, Charles

36.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles

37.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

38.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

39.
In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Fielding, Henry

40.
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
Auden, W. H.

41.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
Dahlberg, Edward

42.
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
Carlyle, Thomas

43.
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Rowland, Helen

44.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
James, Henry

45.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans

46.
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset

47.
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
Dahlberg, Edward

48.
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
Bruyere, Jean De La

49.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

50.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Beecher, Henry Ward


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